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Show HILTJ TOP Pag 22 ecads of Progress TIMES May 8, 1964 Mossi!, Spaoe IProgra El Noted ion - ft' c- Ten years ago this May, the WASHINGTON (AFNS) Air Force made a decision destined to set the future, course of U.S. military strategy and lay the foundations of the National Space Program. v;:''v The decision: Accelerate the development of the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). engine1, i fohich Iflujvrqs sairie-basi- c to giant size. A m- . - vO' ..U)-is :n&inel-au- A WfffW hnisledy has improvement in guidancej&ccuracy and its range has been improved to more than 6,000 nautical The result: A new family of - ..J radical reorganization . is i&2ii altrain-ih;jf:IriSmbe required if a militarily useful launch.. Witnessed bv Presi vehicle is to be had within a dent Kennedy at VaiirlpnV, reasonable span of time." With AFB, it was reported that proper direction and support, the dummy warhead hit less the committee estimated that than one mile from its desioperational ICBM's could be gnated impact point. achieved in six to eight years. The cost of this monumental effort can easily be calculated The results of nuclear tests in terms of dollars and cents. in late 1953 and early 1954 rein But' it is more difficult to asforced the committee's conclu sess the boldness, the dedicsions convincing the SMEC that a look ahead. ation, the talent and the creativa thermonuclear weapon coma demanded of people directly ity ICBM much an be produced for On May 14. 1S54, Gen. involved in such a dynamic Thomas D. White, then Air smaller than the with its attendant in operation Force vice chief of staff, direct- engine monsters under study and demands. 3 pressures project. ed the Atlas ICBM program be the For years the parking lot begiven highest Air Force priits Special Spearheaded by operational capability in the an Inglewood school house 10 hind the BHD buildings on ority. The Air Research and Assistant for Research and Arbor Vitae would not be empty would Command Development tight timetables given to Gen- years" ago. Development, Trevor Garduntil midnight or later. the for protake responsibility Through these 10 years, they eral Schriever. ner, the Air Force then apa General Schriever introduced West gram and establish have been assisted by the best recommendations the proved a a Normal manage- brains of the aerospace indus Coast field office with genmanagement technique called and issued the May 1954 m "Black command. eral officer in ment concept would stretch the try and the dedicated efforts of Saturday" directive. session during out for 10 years or hundreds of thousands of skilled Now, this May of 1964, more 30 days Air Force program eoTVTiP.ndfT and his less In which than the unskilled workers. These and than 750 Atlas, Titan and Min- - scientists and research and de more before SAC would have - staff rcrild every prouteman missiles are operational velopment management experts, operational missile capability. people range from the white- gram, lookirjrprobe roMems or fur garbed lady assembling tiny with the Strategic Air Command traveling in civilian clothes unNo holds is most the While time guidance components under a potential difficult 3. lies costly and 180 satellites have been der top secret orders, began to pulled of commodities, the urgent need microscope in a "clean room," were barred, no pur.' launched by the United States trickle into Los Angeles. Under for such' a system was the?e durinpr cement to worker the deemed laboring the majority lofted into space a, carefully planned strategem, se.Mo- sometimes' cold of in the the revolutionso a that biting Force-devel imperative by these same Air ssions. But after the Western Development Divi proirratn ntana winter. oped boosters and the Thor in sion (WDD) established head ary new development concept cn the "out been had director is difficult to compretermediate-rang- e ballistic mis quarters in an unused school was adopted. It involved great It dl-listed rack," he was tisualV and financial risks, hend the "technological extechnical sile (IRBM). with the SchriiYer;m. "O.K., building in Inglewood. Led by but was calculated to reduce the touched off just 10 let's plosion" the promoted Brig. recently Trior to 1954, the ICBM get on with it!" development cycle time by half. years ago. subsystem and Gen. A. the Bernard Schriever, hi! the Air And that's This was the "concurrency con project was marked by starts, not availwere components in a revolution group sparked Force has fcen doirq:. stops and reversals. Although cept' sometimes described as able "off the shelf." "Black Saturday" is still gothe Air Force initiated its U.S. military development con all together and all at once." For consider acute .the an example, Motivated cepts. by in first ICBM effort, All aspects of the total system ing strong. It has helped pro1954 area. In the sense propulsion these Air oi urgency, d duce more than 730 operational 1916, the project was missile design, ground en Division of North ICBM's. in 1948 because of a Force officers embarked on a vironment, command and con Rocketdyne Amerirfln Aviatinn' hA HpvpI- - Bevond this vital strategic was soon to out- ' shortage of funds and insuf- program which trol, personnel training, pro- a rocket for the m Manhattan the engme oped Project strip ficient technical promise.. the Air Force effort duction and test-- were capability, planned Air Force j Navajo program has laid a foundation for tne .ii va v. wa uiuavtu amv iiauijuv an outf National Space Program. The Project MX-15WDD nucleus has Missile Division and each of This vital MX-77- 4 was w of begun growth was conducted in record shows that 90 per cem few in 1951 on the basis of RAND evolved to the Air Force BaH these efforts a same this basic in years, at:rt cheilites haw L, tyya . often simultaneously. " h CORP. studies establishing the listic Missile Division and sub- parallel, and improved intn orbit by Air . lofted been establishment in order that SAC might have to the e sequently balt a of th f feasibility boosters, sister or- - its initial operational ICBM . of the present-da- y JZa1 hstic missile. 1.88'000. Pounds of thrust of the M- ,ng. in investment Thi 1353. Air Force the capability ganizations evolution has t and, through its already M.An.n In 1952, Atomie Energy Com- Ballistic Systems Division and and records that this goal I heen employed in the Atlas, returns History mission physicists theorized the Air Force Space Systems was significant broujrhi ... ana achieved at 1:49 p.m, Kr?nr dividend! Jupiter. that a thermonuclear device Division. I when 9, a EST, 1959, rnmc .l.iet in Ani Sept nf f v.or. . w ntnr. r providing . I ftMUbVa could be manufactured which .a J Wa Air launch Command clear and to main- From the start, a fM Strategic version f Mrin. Atprrence wi. would be considerably lighter " . . . . . ... linAJt nf Atilhoritr And ro--1 crew launched the nation a fimt I - th mean n: - me me 01 . . 1 peace and smaller tnan tnose carnea Mirprt .. .... ursi mil t siage .t. .r,w u. m. 01 were iv.ubi. wiauiisnea. inc NASA's powerful Saturn I. The for peaceful exploration operawonai Peacemaker sPons,D3L by the giant 6 .vu vwiuhi v.n W1c ui nlflnpt nnd solar SVSiem. j bomber, then the mainstay of lvcijt 10 me massive iwum uic ui ' mcuiucr couiu ir cunuiuuie Command. the Strategic Air undertaking was tapped for key j Force, one who had not been of a as result Meantime, personnel and resources. Close-- 1 qualified as a pilot. ... world conditions and indica ly integrated into the manage Fighi elewere well were ment Soviets tions that the organizations ARRIVE HOME SAFELY of the Air Material Coro-sil- e Ten years of technology and advanced in their ballistic the changing strategic require Slop at the Completely Remodeled program, new studies werelmand (now Air Force Logistics ments the United States have of initiated by the Air Force. As Command), the Strategic Air CLUB ROYAL in an resulted enUre "family" Stra-1 was to Command oper(which a result, in late 1953, the of strategic missiles and space and refresh yourself legic Missiles Evaluation Com-- ate the new weapon system) boosters Atlas, TiUa L II Air and the the Training Command, mittee (SMEC)., reported Till 1:M Dancing Nightly : It was recognized early that and III, Thor, Minuleman I Ta IK Mutie trf tf "R Atlas program, as then consti and and Bast Music and Ctldett Bnr Around stages tuted, could not be effectively traditional concepts of de- as II, Ablesuch space La and Del Id Able, Star. woo not achieve out "a velopment arrplerated and pointed Acmi Frwn Main Cata H HAFB (FarmaHy Oa') the Agena. The latter alone has orbited more than half the deterrent weapons which make proportion up an and of U.S. strategic forces a foundation of technologies on which almost all U.S. space capabilities are based. The years since 1951 mark a decade of unprecedented devel opment progress. This 10th anniversary serves as a vantage point for a glance behind and ever-growi- gj ng first-generati- on . five-to-sev- en MX-159- step-by-st- ep all-da- y once-n-mon- th a sm;l-F?avchi- poul-r-arm- jr, ! . n ' . MX-77- 4. can-celle- IAT"? "". r7JUS u 93 long-rang- Force-develop- ed M-no- r mmm mm eiht vvnag l. mm t- B-3- A WA, .. 1 milIlon-and-a-half-notinH-th- 1 Don't rais-jmen- the Traffic ts oval-Air- " world's earth satellite. All of this has evolved from the dedication, skill, and imagination of the little cadre of Air Force officers which set up shop in CHOICE Iiytoa ' C&K Creenhouse ' iwoie ocnooi 10:00 am. Communion .trricell:00 amu Aimuifr i.rraM u. raat 410 Tark SU UUh "LOCKS SOUTH OF ROCK LOFT IN FRUIT HEIGHTS ' ' .: 1 ' ) Chrislian Qivch Meeting i tbe Amcrku Ufioa nail, Mjrtoa, UUb I'hone OGDEN LIMOUSINE SERVICE For 394-576- 1. 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